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From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Libor Vanlk <libor@conet.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding snapshot capability to Linux
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:41:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020422134139.B16000@borg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CC3ECD2.9000205@conet.cz> <20020422170745.GD3017@turbolinux.com>

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:07:46AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Please see:
> http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/snapfs/
> 
> What you describe is exactly what snapfs does.  The Sourceforge project
> is currently inactive, but the code itself is GPL and only needs some
> polishing up and maintenance to be useful (probably also some work to
> get it all OK under 2.4 again).

Very interesting.  Firing up google.com/linux I found a LWN story on
snapfs from a year ago March: <http://lwn.net/2001/0308/kernel.php3>.
Other than looking to me like it might not be bootable, this looks
very much like something someone named Kent Borg was asking about a
few days ago.


-kb

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-22 10:58 Adding snapshot capability to Linux Libor Vaněk
2002-04-22 12:06 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-22 12:19   ` Libor Vanek
2002-04-22 12:42     ` Jasper Spaans
2002-04-22 15:02       ` Alvaro Figueroa
2002-04-23  5:36   ` rpm
2002-04-23 14:30     ` Alvaro Figueroa
2002-04-23 14:45       ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-23 14:58         ` Xavier Bestel
2002-04-23 18:48         ` Libor Vanek
2002-04-23 19:04         ` Jeremy Jackson
2002-04-23 20:22           ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-22 17:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-22 17:41   ` Kent Borg [this message]
2002-04-22 18:39     ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-22 18:19   ` Sandy Harris

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